SAP d-kom 2017 Bangalore
14 & 15 February
5,000 employees, 800 speakers, 450 sessions, and 40 demo pods, February 14 and 15 marked two days of non-stop learning and a strong focus on innovation. To be the most innovative labs in the SAP network is our focus for 2017, and our journey towards that was accelerated at SAP d-kom Bangalore.
The keynote of Dilipkumar Khandelwal, MD, SAP Labs India, EVP Enterprise Cloud Services, highlighted the following: - The great industry convergence - Digital Business Framework 2.0 - Bimodal IT - P&I Strategic directions 2017
He announced that HANA Cloud Platform(HCP) has been renamed to SAP Cloud Platform because it has gone far beyond a platform that only offers HANA services.
SAP Leonardo, SAP Clea, and IRIS were other namings introduced during his keynote.
Day 1 also featured a keynote by Wieland Schreiner on SAP S/4HANA.
Me@SAP d-kom 2017
Day 2 gave attendees an outside-in perspective. With external keynotes by Viral Shah, Founder of Julia Computing, and Ajith Mohan Karimpana,Founder and CEO, Furlenco, attendees got a glimpse of how an entrepreneurial spirit combined with a simple idea can change the way we work and grow into a successful business. Startups who are part of our startup focus program such as GLOSAP, Teknoleum, and Greenojo, conducted sessions on how they are building solutions based on SAP HANA.
http://juliacomputing.com/ Julia is a modern, fast, and open source language for data science and technical computing. We build Julia-based products for businesses, government, and academia. ‘Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations’, by Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah
Rebooting India is a manifesto for Aadhaar — once described as “the biggest social project on the planet” — and all the ways that such digital technology is being or could be deployed to manage this notoriously ill-managed country better, whether the challenge is banking, education, the courts or taxation.
https://www.furlenco.com/ Furlenco is changing the way people access furniture. We offer furniture on rent and are setting new industry standards in the process. Our products feature award-winning design, and we deliver in as quickly as 72 hours. Also, our design process is user-inspired, allowing us to offer furniture that truly enhances their lives. Apart from quick deliveries and free set-up, Furlenco also pairs every unit of furniture with matching home décor and soft furnishing, allowing you to furnish your entire home in one click.
SAP d-kom 2017 event began on an enlightening note with a dance performance by ILLUMINATI, a popular dance troupe - the performance combined dance and innovation as they showed formations that spelled out the highlights of the 2017 strategy. Here is the glimpse of it.